Eric Morganson

Eric Morganson (fl. 1911-1914) was a US Cavalry sergeant.

Biography
Morganson was born in Blackwater in Texas' New Austin county on the border with Mexico, descended from Swedish and Norwegian settlers. Eric was raised as a worker at his home, providing for his family by hunting, and he joined the US Army in 1911. He made the rank of Sergeant in the US Cavalry, and fought the Mexican Army at the Battle of Chester Bridge at the end of April 1911. After this incident he was awarded a Medal of Honor for his service in defending the United States.

In the 1910s he participated in wiping out bandits in Texas and Rebeldes in northern Mexico along with other former army men, Marshals, outlaws, bounty hunters, and other Wild West gunslingers.